Gabriel Sherman

Gabriel Sherman (born 1979) is a journalist based out of New York City. Sherman grew up in Potomac Maryland and Westport, Connecticut. He is married to Jennifer Stahl, a fact checker at The New Yorker.
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A "New York Intellectual"

Mirroring the world view of “New York Intellectuals”, a review of his past written work shows he can be quite an elitist in his comments and views. The reaction, for example, to Sherman's article "Running With Slowpokes - How sluggish newbies ruined the marathon", created a firestorm of negative reaction from readers and bloggers.[4] Some have even called him self-absorbed and a snob.[5][6][7] Additionally, Sherman boasts on his website his times in the New York City Marathon and the fact he has run up the stairs of the Empire State Building in 13:26, a fact he is apparently very proud of.[8]

Sherman’s demeaning pen has exended to the political and media personalities he’s covered too. He has even gone so far as to look down upon their weight. For example, about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie he once wrote “Christie lacks the easy charm of a traditional front-runner. For one, he is fat” In his one-side article, he quotes a partisan NJ Democrat who says “He looks hideous! And unhealthy.” Sherman further described Christie as “rotund”.[9]

Sherman and The Media

Sherman has been criticized by some in the media for lazy reporting. Reacting to Sherman’s negative article about the future of the Washington Post, Washington Post’s Chairman Donald Graham said “Having read these stories for 40 years, I found Gabriel Sherman’s piece (“Post Apocalypse,” February 4) particularly lazy. Not much new here.”
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Despite Graham’s public chastising of Sherman, Gabriel is a favorite of the overtly liberal MSNBC cable news channel and other liberal “elites”. Sherman is a frequent guest on “Morning Joe”, hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi.

Schwartz is also no stranger to controversy. In the mid 1990′s, as chairman and CEO of Loral Corporation, his company secretly provided advanced missile technology to China. According to the Pentagon, this technology exchange “significantly improved” China’s long range nuclear missile capability. Schwartz' financial ties to the Bill Clinton apparently paid off as no official action was taken against him or Loral.[15]